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Despite a body of literature focusing on the functionality of modern and stylistically distinct projectile points, comparatively little
attention has been paid to quantifying the functionality of the early stages of projectile use. Previous work identified a simple
ballistics measure, the Tip Cross-Sectional Area, as a way of determining if a given class of stone points could have served as
effective projectile armatures. Here we use this in combination with an alternate measure, the Tip Cros…

The “Origin of Modern Humans”, the “Great Leap Forward”, the “Human Revolution" –are but a few of the terms used to describe the Upper Paleolithic Period in Europe (45,000-11,000 BP). There, and in and contiguous parts of western Asia, the Upper Paleolithic Period preserves the first consistent evidence for several distinctively human behaviors (i.e., behaviors that appear to have evolved uniquely among Homo sapiens). These behaviors include systematic production of personal ornaments,…